Ex-bishop who killed cyclist pleads guilty
BALTIMORE – A former Episcopal bishop pleaded guilty Tuesday to manslaughter, drunk driving and leaving the scene at which she killed a cyclist.
Under an agreement with prosecutors, the state will ask a Baltimore Circuit Court judge next month to sentence Heather Cook to 10 years in prison.
Cook, then a newly installed bishop in the Episcopal Diocese of Maryland, struck 41-year-old Tom Palermo on Dec. 27 in a bike lane near her North Baltimore home. Cook fled to her home before returning to the scene. When she was tested at a police station, her blood-alcohol content level was 0.22 percent. Palermo died of severe blunt force trauma to the head, and left behind a wife and two young children.
Clinton apology adds to email controversy
WASHINGTON – It took three interviews and five days for Hillary Rodham Clinton to say “I’m sorry.”
After resisting apologizing for using a personal email account run on a private server to conduct government business as secretary of state, Clinton shifted course Tuesday.
“That was a mistake,” she said of her email practice. “I’m sorry about that. I take responsibility,” the front-runner for the Democratic presidential nomination said in an interview with ABC News.
Clinton’s late-arriving mea culpa came just 24 hours after she insisted in an interview with The Associated Press she didn’t need to apologize because “what I did was allowed.”
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